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Joseph Chen

Taiwanese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ21932214 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joseph Chen (Chinese: 陳永豐; pinyin: Chén Yǒngfēng; Wade–Giles: Chen2 Yung3-fung1; born 1952) is a Taiwanese politician who was the Political Deputy Minister of Culture from February 2015 until May 2016.

Education

Chen obtained his bachelor's degree in foreign language and literature from National Taiwan University.

Editorial summary

“Joseph Chen” enters the record as taiwanese politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joseph, Chen and Taiwanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joseph, Chen and Taiwanese.
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Why this record matters

“Joseph Chen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joseph, Chen and Taiwanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21932214. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952, 2015 and 2016.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Joseph Chen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.